Research-Archaeology and United Fruit
The United Fruit Company, (UFCO) an American monopoly and once the largest landholder in Central America, used archaeology to accrue power and territory in the 20th century.
My multi-sited archive research synthesizes archaeological archives with business records, photographs, maps, and video footage, revealing that archaeological sites became quasi- American sovereign zones that funneled antiquities and American researchers through an academic-industrial complex.
While dispossessing Indigenous people of sacred sites and arable land, UFCO positioned itself as an ideal entity to salvage sites from the very threat of its own agriculture, creating ambiguous territorial zones that persist today.
Teaching
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Instructor of Record, Global Extraction, Resistance, and Human Rights (Spring 2023)
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
TA, Introduction to Archaeology: Window to the Human Past, (Fall 2019)
TA, Sex and Human Nature (Spring 2021)
Co- Instructor, Ethics of Museums and Heritage (Fall 2022)
TEACHER INSTITUTE OF PHILADELPHIA
Co-instructor, Museums and Social Justice (Fall 2022)
Education
Current
University of Pennsylvania
PhD. Candidate in Anthropology
Certificates in Teaching and Learning, Museum and Object-Based Learning, and LATINX studies. 2021-2022 Graduate Fellow for the Penn Mellon Project: Dispossessions in the Americas.
2018
University of Cambridge
Gates Scholar
MPhil. in Archaeology, Museums and Heritage Studies.
Master's Dissertation, Archaeology Thesis Distinction
Williams, C. (2018). Shipwrecked Heritage and the 'Midas Touch' of Colonialism: Owning Hybrid Histories (Masters thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.31836
2017
Princeton University
BA. in Anthropology
Certificates in Archaeology, Latin American Studies, and urban Studies
Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Stanley J. Stein Senior Thesis Prize in Latin American Studies, Frederick Barnard White Prize in Art and Archaeology, Department of Anthropology Thesis Prize.